Simon Clark

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)

My work explores how brutalist architecture represented more than just an interesting aesthetic, in fact informing a naively optimistic belief that the future would be socialist and utopian. Out of place in the 21st century is the recreation of brutalist structures, emphasising their form as living relics embodying an outdated idealism; they are the ghosts of utopian visions that never came to pass. Using collage and artificial intelligence learning, I suggest alternative realities: the technocratic utopias of 20th-century science fiction made real, almost visible in the periphery of our vision yet just out of reach, a series of lost futures.

Website

simonclarkart.com

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Enquiries

sccla74@gmail.com

Simon Clark, After Tony Ray-Jones, Reference Photo for Collage work, Digital print of black and white photograph recolourised with A.I. software, 2021. Documentation by Tony Ray-Jones.

Simon Clark, Betjeman's Department Store, Generative adversarial network (A.I.) image printed as C-type, 2021.

Simon Clark, Harfield Market Garden Local Planning Office, Generative adversarial network (A.I.) image printed as C-type, 2021.

Simon Clark, The J.G.Ballard Park Estate, Generative adversarial network (A.I.) Image printed as C-type, 2021.

Simon Clark, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Harfield Market Garden, Generative adversarial network (A.I.) image printed as C-type, 2021.

Simon Clark, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Harfield Market Garden, Generative adversarial network (A.I.) image printed as C-type, 2021.

Simon Clark, Central Library, Paper and card collage, clear vinyl, ink on foamboard, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Simon Clark, Harfield Market Garden, Generative adversarial network Image printed as C-type print on foamboard, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

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Claudia Saballa Hobbs

Freda Drakopoulos

Georgie Hoaddley

Harry Zed Hughes

Jivan Simons Mistry

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Nicholas O'Connell

Steven Bellosguardo

Zachary Rockman

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